The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-29


We're destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
met in Chicago on the 10Th in twenty
fourth annual convention. Addresses We're
made by Mayor Roche, Governor Oglesby
and Grand Chief Engineer Arthur.
On the 10Th two freight trains collided at
Woodlawn, Neb., on the Burlington road,
and the cars were wrecked and took fire,
being completely consumed. The loss was
heavy
AT Washington on the 10th the National
Carriage Builders elected Hugh Johnson, of
Detroit, president
THE ninth game of the series for the
worlds baseball championship, played on
the 10Th at Philadelphia, resulted: Detroit,
4; St. Louis, 9
The United States grand jury Investigate
ing the Fidelity Bank cases at Cincinnati
returned seventy indictments on the 10Th
against E. L. Harper, ten against Benjamin
E. Hopkins, ten against Ammi Baldwin and
seven against Miss Josie Holmes, Harper's
private secretary.
E. j. WILDER, prominent capitalist and
politician of Winfield, Kan, was arrested
on the 10Th on the confession of negro
who said that WILDER hired him to kill man
named Van Cleve, who was murdered some
time ago
JAMES POLK, aged eighty three years, one
OF the pioneers of the Wabash valley, was
killed by the cars at Wabash Ind, on the
10Th
THREE explosions of natural gas on
the 10Th at Pittsburgh, Pa, occurring al
most simultaneously, partly wrecked the
Hotel Albemarle and Bijou Theater. block,
and shattered every window in the vicinity
score OF persons We're wounded, two IA
tally
The Western Union Telegraph Company
on the 10th notified over two thous and en-
ployes of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
Company that their services would not be
required after November l.
ADv1cEs OF the 10Th from Indian Territory
say that the people OF the Cherokee nation
were being robbed, their houses and stores
burned and the women and children fired
upon by band of desperadoes under the
lead Of Bud Trainor.
AT Jalappa, Pa, on the 10th Henry
Shaffner aged seventy-four years, killed
his wife, fifty-six years of age, and then
shot himself dead The couple were mar
red a year ago.
FIVE THOUSAND shoe-makers abandoned
their benches at Philadelphia on the 10Th,
and the propriotors Of twenty-four fac
tories paid Off their hands, the employers
turning the strike into a lockout.
IHE President was driven to the EXPOSE
ton grounds at Atlanta on the 10th and
went through tho disagreeable task of re-
viewing procession in a pouring rain. In
the evening public reception was held at
the Executive mansion.
The general assembly Of the Knights of
Labor at minneapolis adjourned sine die on
the 10Th
G. G. FLORA, Of Campbellsville, KY, the
champion quail eater of America, COM
menced on the 10th the feat OF eating one
hundred quail in fifty consecutive days
1T was announced on the 10Th that all of
the Western roads had agreed to make
uniform rate Of two cents q mile on two
thousand-n1ile tickets, retaining the two
and One-half-ce rate On the tnousand-mile
tickets
a orozeH1 in Louisan n on The / 9th leveled
all the sugar cane between Morgan City and
New Orleans. In the latter city houses,
fences and trees We're blown down and many
OF the streets were inundated.
WILLIAM WALKER, importer of dress trim
mings at New York failed ON the 10Th for
5000, due principally to European
firms
AN Easton Pa) manufacturer having pur-
chased the lands about Hutchinson, Kan,
ties, on the 10Th forwarded machinery for
mining it.
soUATTERs were focking to Fargo on the
goth to file claims upon indemnity lands
that had been declared open to settlement
The National convention Of employing
printers, held in Chicago, adjourned on the
10th without having come to any settlement
of the nine-hour dispute, and it was
thought probalole that November l would
be the beginning of q general lockout or
strike in the job-printing establishments of
all the principal cities of the United States
In Chicago on the Goth Judge Jameson
overTuled the motion for q new trial in the
doodle" county commissioners case, and
the six men would have to go to the peni-
tentiary for two years each.
AFTER carrying out the usual programme
at Montgomery, Ala, on the Doth the Presi-
dent and his party started On their return
to Washington.
stroyed the Fulton IRON works Gloss, $780,
+ OCO), and the California car-works Qoss,
$50, 1000.
DR.. NoRvIN GREEN on the Goth denied the
story that two thousand Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph employees were to be discharged.
COLONEL H. A. MONTGOMERY, president of
the Memphis Jockey Club, fell dead in the
clubhouse on the Goth after the second
race.
RAIN prevented the St Louis-Detroit game
Of ball at Washington on the Goth for the
worlds championship.
II was estimated on the Goth that the
yield of wheat in Michigan would reach
22,S15, 1913 bushels. Potatoes We're about
one-third of crop, and winter apples one
half an average crop. .-.s-s. 5...A
NEAR Honon, Ind, on the Goth a child Of
Joseph Cleary was torn to death by a shep-
herd dog: The little fellow was caressing
the animal, which suddenly sprang at his
throat and killed him before help could
arrive
The Excelsior Refining Company of Cleve-
land, O., failed on the Goth for 1925, OOO
NEAR Greer's, s. c., freight and passenger
trains collided on the 2Oth, and the engi-
neer of the passenger and woman were
killed and ten persons were wounded, of
whom four OF five We're not expected to sur
vive
FRANZ MIKHoF, member of an Anarchist
club witch had been making living by
setting fire to property in New York City for
the purpose of getting the insurance money,
was found guilty on the Goth.
Dan